This is the hip-hop blog site created by James "DL" and DJ Cross Phada. We will be sharing a lot of mixes, freestyles, demos, pics, and other assorted goodness from the various radio shows and mix-tapes that we did in the 90s and 2000s.

Friday, September 20, 2013

This is another WUSB "Basement" freestyle. This was an excerpt of a larger cipher that included Natural Resource, Pumpkinhead, Meat Pie, J-Live, Mr. Complex, Parle, and L-Fudge. This was before L-Fudge was signed to Rawkus, and before my co-host HB and myself were managing him. He was relatively unknown at this time compared to most of the other participants, who were big names in the underground. It was fun to get everyone to come out to Long Island for this; as this show was pretty much the entire roster of Makin' Records and Raw Shack Records spitting together. Hip-Hop giant, DJ Spinna was up there too, and he deejayed part of this, alongside J-Live. One of those crazy impromptu episodes that came out kind of memorable...